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[S970]Steam Cleaning Carpet Cleaners

by James Carlson, Jam

If it is time to clean your carpet you have many choices. You can hire someone to clean it or you can clean it yourself or you can just replace it. Replacing it is probably not in your budget and professional carpet cleaners can be expensive as well. If you would like to save money but not have a mushy mess you should consider dry cleaning it yourself. Keep reading and learn how.

The first thing that you need to do is rent the equipment. The equipment that you will be renting is called the Host Dry Carpet Cleaning system. It is available at many vacuum supply stores and home improvement stores. Just look in your phone book under "carpet cleaning rental." When you go to pick up the equipment you will also need to purchase a bottle of pre-spray and a box of cleaning powder. Go pick up your supplies and bring them home.

Once you get the equipment home you will begin by thoroughly vacuuming your carpet. Take you time and do a good job so as to remove as much dry soil as possible. After you have vacuumed you will take your bottle of pre-spray and mist it over the difficult traffic areas. Next sprinkle the powdered cleaner over a ten foot by ten foot area and place the machine on the carpet. The machine will have two counter rotating brushes and you will use it to agitate the powder. Run first in one direction and then turn the machine ninety degrees and agitate the other direction. When you are finished leave the powder on the ground and move on to the next section. After you have completed all of the carpet and the powder is completely dry you will vacuum it up using your home vacuum cleaner and that is it. You are done and the carpet is dry and ready to use.

Dry cleaning, as you can see is a rather easy method of home carpet cleaning for the do it yourselfer. It does have its limitations however and if your carpet is heavily soiled you will want to call a professional cleaner.

There is and probably always will be an ongoing debate on which method is the best, safest and cleanest method for cleaning your carpet.
Both have advantages and disadvantages. Lets go through each and break down the pros and cons and then you will have the information you need to make an educated decision on which method is likely going to be the best method for you to use on your carpet.
Dry cleaning is more of a chemical cleaning than anything, and it is not really dry, some water is used to inject the chemicals into your carpet. The amount of water used is in reality very minimal and it is very quick to dry.
Once the moist chemical is placed into your carpet it is then brushed into the fibers and nap of the carpet, it mixes with the dirt and other debris in the fibers and nap and then it is allowed to dry. As the chemicals dry they crystallize and trap the dirt and debris in small granules and once the carpet dries it is then vacuumed and the dirt is removed in this manner. The cons of dry processes is that they do not deep clean. It only cleans the fibers and unless it has some kind of odor remover it is just surface cleaning at best, carpet does feel and look cleaner after dry cleaning.
The pros are that you have very little moisture on your carpet and it dries fast.
Now we will cover the steam cleaning process.
Steam cleaning is a deep cleaning because it is hot water that is actually pumped into the carpet, it is not actually steam. It saturates the carpet, and the mat of the carpet, mixes with the dirt and debris and is then extracted buy high power vacuum systems.
This gets the fibers and mat or base of the carpet cleaner and removes more dirt and debris. Even sand that weighs more and acts as sandpaper to destroy your carpets.
The cons of steam is that it takes longer for your carpet to dry, leaving the potential for odors if not thoroughly extracted.
Most professionals have top quality extraction equipment and can get the water out for the most part and this makes it 100% safe in this present time because of new designs and increased power in the extractors.
Now you have the majority of the facts and can now make an educated decision on which route you wish to go in your carpet maintenance.

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